Four Treatment Cases of Psoriasis of Soyangins Demonstrated by Yang Poison Exanthema

Young-ho Weon; Weon, Young-ho

doi:10.13048/jkm.13021

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Weon: Four Treatment Cases of Psoriasis of Soyangins Demonstrated by Yang Poison Exanthema

Case Report

Journal of Korean Medicine 2013; 34(3): 160-168.

Published online: September 30, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13048/jkm.13021

Four Treatment Cases of Psoriasis of Soyangins Demonstrated by Yang Poison Exanthema

Young-ho Weon

Haneul Maeum Oriental Medicine Clinic

Correspondence to: 원영호(Young-ho Weon), 서울 강동구 성내동 78-1번지 강동메디컬센타 4층 하늘마음한의원, Tel : +82-2-484-8075, Fax : +82-2-487-8229, E-mail: yhweon2@hanmail.net

Received June 28, 2013 Revised August 20, 2013 Accepted August 20, 2013

Abstract

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent skin disease without any cure so far. The symptoms of the guttate psoriasis of Soyangins going through tonsillitis and of the psoriasis under the steroid rebound phenomenon are identical to one of yang poison exanthema of a Soyangin. The study administered Yangdokbagho-tang, which is used to cure yang poison exanthema of Soyangins, and, as a result, showed significant treatment results from these two types of four clinical cases. Sasang medicine is considered an effective treatment method to cure psoriasis, an obstinate skin disease.

Keywords: Psoriasis, Yang poison exanthema, Yangdokbagho-tang, Soyangin

Fig. 1.

Before treatment in case 1(09/10/10)

Fig. 2.

After treatment in case 1(09/12/15)

Fig. 3.

Before treatment in case 2(12/10/19)

Fig. 4.

After treatment in case 2(12/12/08)

Fig. 5.

Before treatment in case 3(11/04/22)

Fig. 6.

After treatment in case 3(11/09/06)

Fig. 7.

Before treatment in case 4(12/07/09)

Fig. 8.

After treatment in case 4(12/10/22)

Table 1.

PASI Score Changes before and after Treatments in Case 1

	Before Treatment(2009.10.10) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals	After Treatment(2009.12.15) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals
Head	1×(3+1+1)×0.1=0.5	1×(0+0+0)×0.1=0
Trunk	1×(2+1+1)×0.3=1.2	1×(0+0+0)×0.3=0
Upper Limbs	2×(3+1+1)×0.2=2.0	1×(0+0+0)×0.2=0
Lower Limbs	2×(3+1+1)×0.4=4.0	1×(0+0+0)×0.4=0

PASI score	7.7	0

Table 2.

PASI Score Changes before and after Treatments in Case 2

	Before Treatment(2012.10.19) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals	After Treatment(2012.12.08) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals
Head	1×(2+1+1)×0.1=0.4	1×(0+0+0)×0.1=0
Trunk	1×(2+1+1)×0.3=1.2	1×(0+0+0)×0.3=0
Upper Limbs	2×(3+1+1)×0.2=2.0	1×(1+0+0)×0.2=0.2
Lower Limbs	2×(3+1+1)×0.4=4.0	1×(0+0+0)×0.4=0

PASI score	7.6	0.2

Table 3.

PASI Score Changes before and after Treatments in Case 3

	Before Treatment(2011.04.22) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals	After Treatment(2011.09.06) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals
Head	2×(4+1+2)×0.1=1.4	1×(0+0+0)×0.1=0
Trunk	2×(4+1+2)×0.3=4.2	1×(0+0+0)×0.3=0
Upper Limbs	4×(4+1+3)×0.2=6.4	1×(1+0+0)×0.2=0.2
Lower Limbs	3×(4+1+3)×0.4=9.6	1×(1+0+0)×0.4=0.4

PASI score	21.6	0.6

Table 4.

PASI Score Changes before and after Treatments in Case 4

	Before Treatment(2012.07.09) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals	After Treatment(2012.10.22) Surface area totals ×(Erythema+Thickness+Scaling)×Weighting Factor=Totals
Head	1×(2+1+1)×0.1=0.4	1×(0+0+0)×0.1=0
Trunk	2×(2+1+1)×0.3=2.4	1×(0+0+0)×0.3=0
Upper Limbs	3×(2+1+1)×0.2=2.4	1×(1+0+0)×0.2=0.2
Lower Limbs	3×(2+1+1)×0.4=4.8	1×(1+0+0)×0.4=0.4

PASI score	10.0	0.6

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